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I grabbed a cup of this on my way out of the mall because I needed to wake my brain up.

Dry leaf smell: almost exactly like a Tootsie Pop tastes! Delicious!

Brewed taste: Tootsie Pops! …and dirt. It was odd for a tea to be so sweet and yet have such a strongly bitter aftertaste. I’ll admit that I’m not sure I steeped it for the exactly correct amount of time (I roughly estimated five minutes as I walked to my car), but I’ve never had a mate taste quite like that. I could definitely detect the coffee beans, but the bitter aftertaste was not that of coffee. It was something else completely.

Overall, meh. It was drinkable, but not my favourite.

I did however determine once again that my local Teavana doesn’t seem to take part in the sketchy business practices I’ve read so much about here on Steepster. They offered help while I was browsing, but had no issues with only selling me the hot cup of tea that I wanted. It was a perfectly pleasant experience no different from any other store at the mall. So that’s nice. I wonder if some of the negative things I’ve read are about American policies that don’t apply to the Canadian stores. Or maybe my local store is just the exception to the rule. Either way, it’s nice.